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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Consonant Digraph
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Consonant
Closed Syllable
2. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Whole Language
Accommodation
Multisensory
Receptive language
3. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Affix
Open Syllable
ESL
4. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Age equivalent
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Chall's Stage 1
Fluency
5. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Morphology
Phonological Awareness
MSL
6. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Phonological Awareness
Texas Education Code 38.003
Rate
Mastery level
7. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
GORT
Top-down Reading Approach
Diagnostic Teaching
Three Layers of Language
8. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Analytic
Chall's Stage 5
Digraph
9. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
Trigraph
VC
Chall's Stage 4
10. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Norm-Referenced Test
Battery
Chall's Stage 4
Kinesthetic
11. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Top-down Reading Approach
MSLE
Whole Language
12. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Reading Comprehension Support
Macron
Oral Language
13. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
NICHD
Receptive language
Visual Learners
14. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
GORT
Standard score
Simultaneous teaching
Old English
15. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
IMSLEC
Cognitive Assessment
Accent
16. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
WIATII
Profile
Composite Score
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
17. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Phonological Awareness
Latin layer of language
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Funding
18. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Tilde
Percentile
Profile
Academic Achievement Tests
19. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Analytic
Stanine Scores
The Norman Conquest
Reliability
20. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Visual Learners
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Receptive language
Universal Screening
21. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Accuracy
Stanine Scores
Norm-referenced tests
Direct Instruction
22. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
VV
Modern English
Accent
Components of Reading Instruction
23. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Mastery level
Breve
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Chall's Stage 2
24. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Cognition
Impulsivity
Visual Processing
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
25. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
ALTA
Receptive language
Sight Words
Academic Achievement Tests
26. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Criterion referenced tests
Components of Reading Instruction
Closed Syllable
Towre
27. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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28. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Dyslexia
Adolf Kusmaul
Reading Comprehension Support
Joe Torgesen
29. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Keith Stanovich
Greek layer of language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Chall's Stage 1
30. Academic Language Therapy Association
ALTA
Three Layers of Language
Kinesthetic
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
31. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Letter naming Chart
Texas Education Code 38.003
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Criterion-Referenced Test
32. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Vr
Sound Symbol Association
Direct Instruction
Whole Language
33. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Standard score
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Texas Education Code 38.003
Multi-Sensory Approach
34. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Oral Language
Norm-Referenced Test
Six basic types of syllables
Matthew Effect
35. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
IDEA
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Digraph
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
36. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Ability
Criterion-Referenced Test
Percentile
Middle English
37. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Tactile
Fluency
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
38. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Accuracy
Criterion-Referenced Test
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
39. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Syllable Instruction
Trigraph
Matthew Effect
Prefix
40. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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41. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
V >
ESL
Phonology
James Hinshelwood
42. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Modern English
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Chall's Stage 3
43. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Orthography
VAKT
Auditory Learners
44. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Sound Symbol Association
Standard deviation
Auditory Learners
Closed Syllable
45. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Attention
Cedilla
Chall's Stage 0
Auditory Learners
46. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Derived Score
ESL
Percentile/ percentile rank
Old English
47. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Joe Torgesen
Vowel
Top-down Reading Approach
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
48. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Kinesthetic
Adolf Kusmaul
Standard Scores
Combination
49. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Combination
Anglo Saxon
Macron
Norm-Referenced Test
50. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Anna Gillingham
Morpheme
Profile
CTOPP